DOKU Hong Kong Experience Centre

EVENT DESCRIPTION

The Oil Street Art Space (Oi!) will stage a new exhibition, “DOKU Hong Kong Experience Centre”, by Mainland new media artist Lu Yang from March 18 to August 27 at Oi! Glassie.

Attracting worldwide acclaim in recent years, Lu has held numerous solo exhibitions in major international museums and institutions, and participated in large-scale thematic exhibitions including the Venice Biennale. She specialises in integrating elements of imagery, animation, video games and pop culture through digital technology, and explores topics of neuroscience and religion, while expressing thoughts on human’s own existence through unique aesthetics. Modelling on the artist’s own face through 3D scanning, Lu created a hyperrealistic digital avatar called “DOKU”, which is a short form for “Dokusho Dokushi”, meaning “we are born alone, and we die alone”.

In this exhibition, “DOKU” will be presented as if the soul is travelling across the six realms of Buddhist reincarnation. Travelling freely across different geographical spaces and breaking physical limitations, “DOKU” is a vivid representation of the artist’s views on time and space, objectivity and subjectivity, and the essence of life and existence at the philosophical and religious level.